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    dynamic text on a path?

    For a project I'm working on I'd like to be able to have dynamic text on a path (a circle).

    Can anyone point me in a direction that doesn't involve importing all the instances I'll need already in circle form from fireworks or illustrator?

    Thanks!
    Lief

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    Both aps allow you to fit text to a path.
    Look under the text tab in the main tool bar and scroll down a little.
    All you do is draw a shape and select text you want to curve, use the fit to path option and tada!
    photoshop is a little different, you can choose a number of different curved for your text to follow from the "curve text" dialoge box.
    Um... Of ther progs, corel draw has a fit to path option, which works the same as the first two... and Im pretty sure you can edit your text in flash aswell...
    Have a look in the "help topics" next time youre working in Fireworks. Most macromedia products have very good help indexes.

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    If Natsia misunderstood you and you want to do it dynamically in flash you will need to have each letter as a seperate mc and use string.substring as well as a for loop to go through each letter and place it on the stage in its own dynamic text box.
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